We gave the enemy a drubbing.
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Drubbing
/ˈdɹʌbɪŋ/
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After its drubbing at the polls, the party has to reinvent itself.
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His mother gave him a drubbing after finding out he'd been stealing.
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Yet upon its release in Germany the first world war drama has been at the receiving end of a critical drubbing, with critics complaining that it turns a beloved literary classic into a spectacle “horny for an Oscar”, and military historians bemoaning its “black-and-white” historical inaccuracies.
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